THE DONALD AS DON

THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
AS "GOOD GANGSTERISM"

by Richard Wolstencroft

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. 

Did Donald Trump win big in November or what? This was just as I predicted here at Alternative Right way back in the early doubting days of February 2016 with my prescient and prophetic Metapolitics of Winning essay - and also augured in my Get Trump essay on the beginning of the Fake News phenomenon and the unending attacks on Trump. Also in a third essay on the possibility of some Globalists switching sides to stand with Trump. This all came to be.

So, here I am with my next prognostication - the Donald will be the Don. Yes, he is going to be a Corleone-Family-type President, and, far from being a bad thing, that is going to be something good, although with a few dangers for America and the World. Allow me to elucidate.

DONALD TRUMP AND THE RETURN OF LIBERALISM

by Keith Preston

"Let me give you a definition of the word 'liberal.'…Franklin D. Roosevelt once said…It is a wonderful definition, and I agree with him. 'A liberal is a man who wants to build bridges over the chasms that separate humanity from a better life." – Richard Nixon

"Richard Nixon was our last liberal president." – Noam Chomsky

"Imagine a president who expands affirmative action, actively promotes school desegregation, enacts important new laws in social welfare, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, and consumer protection, supports comprehensive health insurance and a system of guaranteed income for all citizens, and whose Justice Department opposes the RICO Act on the grounds that it gives the government powers that are much too broad and sweeping for prosecuting criminals. In 2011, such a president would be considered far to left of Barack Obama and far to the left of almost everyone in Congress. Forty years ago, such a president was called Richard Nixon."-Matthew Lyons ("Right-Wing Movements 101")

Now that Donald Trump has won an upset electoral victory and will be assuming the office of the presidency in a couple of months, I am going to offer the unconventional and, certainly to many people, counter-intuitive opinion that it was Donald Trump rather than Hillary Clinton that was the most left-wing of the two major party candidates.

SELFISH, WHINING MONKEYS

Selfish, Whining Monkeys
by Rod Liddle
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Reviewed by Kevin Scott

The latest book by caustic newspaper columnist, Rod Liddle, who also writes for the Spectator magazine, called Selfish, Whining Monkeys (subtitled: 'How we ended up greedy, narcissistic and unhappy') is an entertaining read for all those who want an offbeat (and sweary) alternative to the politically correct, sterile left-liberalism that currently dominates modern British political and social life.

Liddle, who previously worked for the Labour party and the BBC, intertwines autobiographical reminiscences with pointed observations about the unravelling of British society since the Second World War, some of them amusing, others quite touching, particularly about his parents, and laments the decline of the working class, blaming, among others things, mass immigration, Mrs Thatcher, the Frankfurt School, and left-liberal elites (of all political parties and none!), most of them public-schooled educated and predominant across society, particularly in the legal system, media and politics, for the current abyss.